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Victoria Cross Recipients
Victoria Cross Recipients
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Sudan War 1885
South African War 1899-1902
Second South African (Boer) War 1899-1902
World War I 1914-1918
North Russia 1919
World War II 1939-1945
North Africa and Syria 1940–1942
Borneo 1942-1945
British Commonwealth Occupation Force 1945-1952
Peace operations since 1947
Korean War 1950-1953
Indonesian Confrontation 1962-1966
Malayan Emergency 1948-1960
Vietnam War 1962-1975
Cyprus (UNFICYP) 1964-
Namibia (UNTAG) 1989-1990
Gulf War 1990-1991
First Gulf War 1991
Cambodia UNTAC 1992-1993
Mozambique (ONUMOZ) 1992-1994
Somalia 1992-1995
Rwanda (UNAMIR) 1993-1996
INTERFET 1999-2000
East Timor 1999-2013
Solomon Islands IPMT 2000-2002
War in Afghanistan 2001-2021
Second Gulf War 2003-2009
Iraq War 2003-2013
Solomon Islands (RAMSI) 2003-2013
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Charles Groves Wright Anderson VC, MC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/19th Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF, 56th Australian Infantry Battalion, Commonwealth Military Forces, 3rd (Kenyan) Battalion, Kings African Rifles
Date of action:
18 January 1942
Place of action:
Muar River, Malaya (now Malaysia)
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Thomas Leslie Axford VC, MM
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
16th Infantry Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
4 June 1918
Place of action:
Hamel Wood, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Peter John Badcoe VC
Conflict:
Vietnam War 1962-1975, Malayan Emergency 1948-1960
Unit:
Australian Army Training Team Vietnam
Date of action:
23 February 1967
Place of action:
Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam (now Vietnam)
Medal location:
Unknown
Cameron Stewart Baird
Conflict:
Unit:
2nd Commando Regiment
Date of action:
23 June 2013
Place of action:
Ghawchak, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Robert Matthew Beatham VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
8th Infantry Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
9 July 1918
Place of action:
Rosières, France
Medal location:
Queensland Museum
Frederick William Bell VC
Conflict:
Second South African (Boer) War 1899-1902
Unit:
6th West Australian Mounted Infantry
Date of action:
16 May 1901
Place of action:
Brakpan, Transvaal, South Africa
Medal location:
Western Australian Museum
Frederick Birks
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
6th Infantry Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
20 September 1917
Place of action:
Glencorse Wood near Ypres, Belgium
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
John Hutton Bisdee
Conflict:
Second South African (Boer) War 1899-1902
Unit:
1st Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen
Date of action:
1 September 1900
Place of action:
Warm Bad (now Bela-Bela), Transvaal, South Africa
Medal location:
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Arthur Seaforth Blackburn
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
10th Infantry Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
23 July 1916
Place of action:
Pozières, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Albert Chalmers Borella VC, MM
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
26th Infantry Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
17 June 1918
Place of action:
Villers-Bretonneux, France
Medal location:
Privately held
Walter Ernest Brown
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
20th Infantry Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
6 June 1019
Place of action:
Villers-Bretonneux, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Alexander Henry Buckley VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
54th Infantry Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
1 September 1918
Place of action:
Péronne, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Maurice Vincent Buckley
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
13th Infantry Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
18 September 1918
Place of action:
Le Verguier, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Patrick Joseph Bugden VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
31st Infantry Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
26 September 1917
Place of action:
Polygon Wood, Belgium
Medal location:
Queensland Museum
Alexander Stewart Burton VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
7th Infantry Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
9 September 1915
Place of action:
Lone Pine, Gallipoli Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
John Carroll VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
33rd Infantry Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
7 June 1917
Place of action:
St Yves, Belgium
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
George Cartwright
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
33rd Infantry Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
31 July 1918
Place of action:
Road Wood, south-west of Bouchavesnes near Péronne, France
Medal location:
Imperial War Museum, London
Claud Charles Castleton VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
5th Machine Gun Company, AIF
Date of action:
28 June 1916
Place of action:
Pozières, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Percy Herbert Cherry
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
26th Infantry Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
26 March 1917
Place of action:
Lagnicourt, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Albert Edward Chowne VC, MM
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/2nd Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF, 2/13 Australian Infantry Battalion, 36th Militia Battalion
Date of action:
25 March 1945
Place of action:
Dagua, New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea)
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
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